CERIAS: News

Spafford Taking Cyber Security Questions on CNN.com

2013-05-08T13:33:00+00:00

(CNN) The Pentagon’s claims in a new report that China is trying to extract sensitive information from U.S. government computers has put cyber security issues back in the media spotlight. But how serious is the threat to U.S. interests? How can America respond? And what other issues should be attracting policymakers’ attention? Cyber security expert Eugene Spafford, a professor of computer sciences at Purdue University and former member of the President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee, will be taking questions from GPS readers.

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Spafford Joins EPIC Advisory Board

2013-04-26T15:31:44+00:00

April 23, 2013 - EPIC has announced the 2013 members of the EPIC Advisory Board. They are Michael Froomkin, Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Miami School of Law; Sheila Kaplan, student privacy advocate and founder of Education New York; Eugene Spafford, a/k/a/ “Spaf,” professor of Computer Science at Purdue University; and Tim Wu, professor at Columbia Law School and author of “The Master Switch.” The EPIC Advisory Board is a distinguished group of experts in law, technology, and public policy. Joining the EPIC Board of Directors in 2013 are current Advisory Board members David Farber, Joi Ito, and Jeff Jonas. For more information.

see EPIC: EPIC Advisory Board.

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Will New Hires Impede Future Security?

2013-04-16T13:48:03+00:00

The rush to find qualified IT security professionals to meet current cyber-threats could jeopardize IT systems’ security in the not-too-distant future, say two leading IT security experts, Eugene Spafford and Ron Ross.

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A Different Approach To Foiling Hackers? Let Them In, Then Lie To Them

2013-04-08T12:28:42+00:00

(Forbes) Last month Heckman, a researcher for the non-profit IT research corporation MITRE, gave a talk with fellow MITRE researcher Frank Stech at Purdue’s Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security and described a cyber war game scenario MITRE played out internally in which she and Stech tried an unorthodox defensive strategy: Instead of trying to purge a Red Team of hackers from a Blue Team’s network they were defending, Heckman and Stech let the attackers linger inside, watched them, and fed them confusing misinformation. The result: despite the Blue Team’s network being deeply compromised by the Red Team’s hackers, Blue managed to trick Red into making the wrong moves and losing the game.

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Seven CERIAS Faculty Promoted

2013-04-05T18:12:32+00:00

The Purdue board of trustees approved faculty promotions for seven CERIAS related faculty effective July 1:

To Professor

Saurabh Baghci, professor of electrical and computer engineering

David Love, professor of electrical and computer engineering

T.N. Vijaykumar, professor of electrical and computer engineering

Dongyan Xu, professor of computer science

Chris Clifton, professor of computer science

To Associate Professor

Ramana Kompella, associate professor of computer science

Jennifer Neville, associate professor of computer science and statistics

Congratulations for their promotion and continuing success!

CERIAS Annual Information Security Symposium - April 3rd - 4th 2013

2013-04-03T13:23:59+00:00

The 14th Annual Information Security Symposium is underway.

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CERIAS Distinguished Lecture April 10th, 2013

2013-03-31T04:11:33+00:00

C.N.R. Rao Global Science Policy Leadership Lecture & CERIAS DIstinguished Lecture April 10 @ 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM - Fowler Hall in Stewart Center

The Global Policy Research Institute and CERIAS are pleased to host Mr. Norman R. Augustine, Chairman & CEO (retired) of Lockheed Martin, on Wednesday, April 10. Mr. Augustine will be presenting a lecture on “The Growing Role - and Problems - Facing Science and Engineering.”

America and many other nations today confront an unusual number of truly pivotal challenges ranging from supplying clean energy to assuring national security and from providing healthcare to preserving the Earth’s environment. None of these can be solved without a strong economy, and as a developed nation America’s ability to grow its economy will be heavily dependent upon innovation – most of which will be enabled by scientists and engineers. Yet America’s ability to produce scientists and engineers has been deteriorating for several decades. Fortunately, there is much the nation can do to remain competitive…if it has the will.

Norm Augustine is retired Chairman and CEO of the Board of the Lockheed Martin Corporation. Prior to joining Martin Marietta, he served as Assistant Secretary of the Army (R&D) from 1973-75 and and Undersecretary from 1975-77. He was a Professor at Princeton, his alma mater, from 1997-99. Mr. Augustine has been presented the National Medal of Technology by the President of the United States and received the Joint Chiefs of Staff Distinguished Public Service Award. He has five times received the Department of Defense’s highest civilian decoration the Distinguished Service Medal. He is co-author of The Defense Revolution and Shakespeare In Charge and author of Augustine’s Laws and Augustine’s Travels. He was Chairman and Principal Officer of the American Red Cross for nine years, Chairman of the National Academy of Engineering, President and Chairman of the Association of the United States Army, Chairman of the Aerospace Industries Association, Chairman of the Defense Science Board, and has served on numerous other boards.

Cybercrime: It’s Serious, But Exactly How Serious?

2013-03-13T17:11:31+00:00

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Staffing: Supply vs. Demand

2013-03-05T15:34:22+00:00

Some people say the U.S. faces a cybersecurity staffing shortage. Renowned computer science professor Eugene Spafford disagrees. He discusses what he sees as the real shortage and what we can do about it.

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Notification of Server Breach Mistaken For Phishing Email

2013-02-22T14:00:09+00:00

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